Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Compare and Contrast
Yes, it's time for the comparing and contrasting. In part 3, the garcia girls and their family lived in the Dominican Republic, but in part 2, they moved to America. Now, at first they didn't like it in America, but eventually, they started to love the country, and get used to it's traditions, while trying to maintain their own. So, if there wasn't a revolution in the Dominican Republic, then do you think that they should of stayed in the Dominican Republic or not? Would you leave the Dominican Republic if you were born and raised there to come to America? Explain.
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I think that if the revolution did not happen, they should have stayed in the Dominican Republic. There lives seemed much happier there. They had a close family, extended family included, and were much wealthier. I illustrated the difference between the two in one of my blog posts.
ReplyDeleteI also think that the time period that they went to America, the 1960s, had a very bad influence on the sisters. If there had never been a revolution, they would not have gotten into some of the trouble that they did. They probably would have never began smoking marijuana, which was a big trend during this time period in the USA. I think there lives seemed a lot better in their native country before the revolution than it did in NYC.
I would not want to leave my native country because I would not want to leave my family behind and I would not know what to expect from a new country that I had never been in before.
I feel that if the Revolution did not happen they would have also stayed in the Dominican Republic. They had such an easy life style, having everyone do things for them, not having to worry for much, and they just seemed so happy doing and having what they did in the Dominican Republic.
ReplyDeleteAs they arrived in America they hated it so much, they thought so bad about the country and stayed with negative thoughts in their heads. But as you can see they start loving the country, and as each day passed they loved it even more and more.
I really think that it was a good idea to move to America, even if the revelution didn't happen. This is so because although they had to deal with discrimination, a language differerence, and world crisis (Cuban Missle Crisis), they still gained a lot of life long experiences. If they stayed in the Dominican Republic, the chances are that they would of stayed there for the rest of their lives; not to mention that they were still under a dictatorship. When they moved to America, they didn't realize it, but they had many more freedoms than they had in the Dominican Republic.
ReplyDeleteit sounds good from reading about their story, but I probably would want to stay. This is so because it is hard to leave a place where you were born and raised in, and I would just like to stay home, even if home was ruled by a dictatorship.
Andrew Villa
I think it was a good idea for them to move to America because they saw things in a much more different way than they did in the DR. In a way I would leave the DR if I were born and raised there because I would want to see how in different places how they worked things.
ReplyDeleteWhen they came to America they didn't like it so much, I remember in the book Carla was always being called names like hairy, and the kids were telling her to go back to where she came from.
But they've all learned how to grow out of that, while still learning new things everyday.